Motivational Quotes

Failure

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Failure

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Herbert, George

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

Past failures are guideposts to success.

The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

Pitino, Rick

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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Eliot, George

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Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure -- which is try to please everybody.

Swope, Herbert B.

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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Everyone pushes a falling fence.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.

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You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Disney, Walt

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I am often confronted by the necessity of standing by one of my empirical selves and relinquishing the rest. Not that I would not. If I could, be... a great athlete and make a million a year, be a wit, a born -- vivant and a lady killer,as well as a philosopher, a philanthropist ... and saint. But the thing is simply impossible. The millionaire's work would run counter to the saint s; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up; the philosopher and the lady killer could not well keep house in the same tenement of clay. Such different characters may conceivably, at the outset of life. Be alike possible for a man. But to make any one of them actual,the rest must more of less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully and pick out on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal, but the fortunes of this self are real. Its failure are real failures, its triumphs real triumphs carrying shame and gladness with them.

James, William

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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

George, William Lloyd

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Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on.

Hobson, Tom

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Many a man never fails because he never tries.

Macewan, Norman

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no insurmountable barrier except our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Fitzgerald, Ella

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If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Winfrey, Oprah

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The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Ruth, Babe

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Success is the proper utilization of failure.

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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Hill, Napoleon

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On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.

Bhagavad Gita

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Yogananda, Paramahansa

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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Phillips, Wendell

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The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

Jones, Lloyd

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In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Viscott, David

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Merton, Thomas

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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln.

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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Melville, Herman